Lahore: Pakistan's disgraced nuclear
scientist A Q Khan has informed a court here that the
government has placed a "ban on water and medical supplies""
to him under the garb of a court order.
Khan's counsel Syed Ali Zafar told a bench of the
Lahore High Court yesterday that though arguments in a case
for easing restrictions on the scientist were going on, the
government had barred Khan from going out of his residence
even to visit his brother who is critically ill in a hospital.
Zafar said Khan's relatives and friends too had been
stopped from visiting him and the government, in an
unprecedented move, had restricted the supply of water to his
residence and stopped his doctor and medical staff from
visiting him.
This, Zafar contended, could severely jeopardize
Khan's health.
The counsel alleged that all this was being done in
the garb of a recent interim order issued by the High Court in
which the bench had directed the federal government to provide
security to the scientist.
He said the government's action amounted to a most
serious breach of Khan's basic fundamental rights and that
this could not have been the intention of the High Court when
it passed the recent order.
Zafar asked the court to direct the government not to
dictate the terms of security for Khan.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, February 09, 2010, 12:01